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Mobilizing Voters and Shaping Policy for Better Health

October 15, 2024

HMS physicians and students promote civic engagement to improve patient care and outcomes

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Harvard Medical School Scientist Gary Ruvkun Receives Nobel Prize for Discovery of microRNA

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Ruvkun shares award for elucidating fundamental principle of gene activity regulation

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Researchers Harness AI to Repurpose Existing Drugs for Treatment of Rare Diseases

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New AI model identifies drug candidates from existing medicines for thousands of rare diseases

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Harvard Medical School Researcher Wins 2024 Lasker Award for Work That Led to GLP-1 Therapies

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Researchers point to solutions and opportunities for better health

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Training Inventors of Future Medicines

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A New Artificial Intelligence Tool for Cancer

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Harvard Medical School expert discusses challenges of diagnosis, treatment, and what lies ahead

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August 19, 2024

Making sense of the latest developments with HMS infectious disease specialist Daniel Kuritzkes

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New AI Tool Captures How Proteins Behave in Context

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PINNACLE predicts protein functions in cells and tissues, can help improve drug discovery

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